Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain E. W. Walker, East Yorkshire Regiment, who was killed in action at Armentières on 29 October 1914

1914 Star (Capt: E. W. Walker. E. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. W. Walker.); Memorial Plaque (Edgar Wilmer Walker); Memorial Scroll ‘Capt. Edgar Wilmer Walker, East Yorkshire Rgt.’; Inner Temple tribute Medal 1914-1918, bronze, unnamed; all mounted for display together with the Buckingham Palace enclosure, verdigris to meals where they have come into contact with the mounting pins, otherwise good very fine (5) £600-£800

Edgar Wilmer Walker was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, on 3 August 1875, the eldest son of Rear-Admiral Charles Walker, and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He qualified as a Barrister and was admitted to the Inner Temple prior to the Great War. Commissioned a Captain in the 3rd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, on 19 June 1905, he served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 September 1914, and was killed in action during an Artillery Bombardment at Armentières on 29 October 1914. He is buried in Ration Farm Military Cemetery, France.